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single day. your bravery, decency, honor, commitment to duty. you can send more fuel through a boom of a kc-135-r in 8 minutes than a civilian gas pump can pump in 24 hours. and you do it in midair. and that s all a normal day for this team. don t tell me we can t win the race to the future across the board. we are the country that cracked the physical and the physics of human flight. and then crashed through the sound barrier and put a man on the moon and flew a helicopter on mars. i could go on and on and on. there s nothing, nothing, nothing beyond our capacity. so i want to thank you again for welcoming jill and me today. it is great to be here in the uk but it is greater being here seeing you first.
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On May 28, the Department of Defense released its $752.9 billion defense budget request for 2022 a document which will almost certainly be subject to the extensive back-and-forth in Congress before being signed into law.
Though the budget will certainly be revised, it nonetheless serves as a guide to the Biden-era Department of Defense’s priorities, with a record $112 billion devoted to research and development of future technologies at the expense of reducing forces in the near term. This seemingly is based on the premise that there is a limited short-term risk of major conflict, but that there is a need to secure technological overmatch versus the maturing military capabilities of China in the next decade.